HAMILTON — When Danny Young stepped to the plate in the bottom of the sixth there were two things on his mind.

He wanted to do something to help his Montgomery team, and he wanted to forget about his first two at-bats.

After he slapped a two-run single to give the Green and Gold a one-run lead, he really helped his team. In doing so, he had an at-bat everyone will remember.The knock gave Montgomery a 10-9 victory over Hamilton in the sweltering heat at Trenton Babe Ruth in the opening game of the District One 13-year-old tourney

Montgomery tailed 9-5 after four innings, but the pitching combination of Matt Ryan and Cory Carmon kept the Switlik Park kids in check. The pitching was aided by some sparkling defense, including a game-ending double play, and timely hitting.

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“I didn’t do too good in the previous times and I wanted to do something to help my team,” said Young of the single to center to plate the winning run. “I wasn’t thinking of anything really big. I just wanted to hit the runners in and let us win this game.”

Hamilton, which just couldn’t finish things off, faces the long road back from the elimination round. beginning today when they meet Hopewell Valley at 4 p.m.

“You can’t give teams extra outs in the 13’s, and that is what we did,” said Hiram Cartagena, the Hamilton manager. “We left too many outs on the field, and a team like Montgomery is going to capitalize on the chances.”

Montgomery got a pair of hits from Joy LaVake and Vikram Avancha to lead the 10-hit parade.

Matt Irwin and Joey Demato had a couple of big hits to pull Montgomery to 9-7 in the fifth.A walk, a single by LaVake, an RBI single by Avancha and Young produced three runs in the seventh and completed the comeback.

“I knew these guys could come back,” said Montgomery manager Frank Kimick. “They had an excellent spring. Hamilton is a great team.We played them last year as 12’s and they beat us. The double play was a great ending to this game.”

The beginning of the game belonged to Hamilton as it took at 3-0 lead in the top of the first on an Angelo Sanger two-run single and a Montgomery miscue.

John Sikorski, who was 3for4 with a pair of RBIs, helped Hamilton build the 9-5 lead, but Ryan settled down on the mound and Carmon had three solid innings of relief.along with Tyler Moore and Ray Andersoneach had run-scoring hits for Hamilton.

While the temperature on the field was sizzling, Ryan and Carmon stayed cool and calm even while battling the deficit.

“Once you are out there and you get the nerves out, the heat doesn’t bother you,” said Ryan. “Once we got our energy up in the later innings it all came together. It’s always nice to get the first one.”

While Montgomery can enjoy that opening win, Hamilton’s trip to the title game got a little longer with the loss.

“It is going to wear down the pitching and you have to take it one inning at a time,” said Cartagena. “Hopefully we can follow in the footsteps of our 14’s last year that lost the first game and came all the way back to win it.”

Hamilton has the talent to pull it off and Montgomery has the talent to keep winning.